C O N T E N T S
Prologue “There Goes a Big Slide of Snow”
Chapter 1 “Little Molehills from the Green Sea”
Chapter 2 “A Detective! Me?”
Chapter 3 “Murdered in the Most Shocking Manner”
Chapter 4 “A Plan Had Been Laid for My Assassination”
Chapter 5 “Set a Price on Every Rebel Head and Hang Them”
Chapter 6 “An English Nobleman Travelling for Pleasure”
Chapter 7 “Don’t You Know There Is a War in This Country, Sir?”
Chapter 8 “Grossly Insulting to Some of the Officers”
Chapter 9 “I See You Are a Stranger in These Parts”
Chapter 10 “Do You Mean to Say That You Have Been in Wise’s Camp?”
Chapter 11 “That Is Tim Webster”
Chapter 12 “The Most Persuasive Woman That Was Ever Known in Washington”
Chapter 13 “You’ll Have to Be Mighty Careful Now, or You’ll Be Arrested”
Chapter 14 “It Would Be Folly for Me to Go to Richmond”
Chapter 15 “He Is a Noble Fellow, a Most Valuable Man to Us”
Chapter 16 “I Suspected You All Along”
Chapter 17 “Trust for a Favorable Outcome”
Chapter 18 “We Have All Your Companions”
Chapter 19 “Hanged by the Necks Until We Were Dead”
Chapter 20 “Keep Your Courage Up”
Chapter 21 “I Have Made a Full Statement and Confessed Everything”
Chapter 22 “I Suffer a Double Death”
Chapter 23 “It Was Not War, It Was Murder”
Chapter 24 “They Held Existence by a Frail Tenure”
Chapter 25 “Lewis Remained Staunch, and Did Not Confess”
Epilogue “A Faithful Servant to His Country”
Appendix 1 The Baltimore Plot
Appendix 2 The Trial
Appendix 3 Pinkerton’s Military Espionage